I was in high school in San Diego, around 1974 or so, my friends and I wanted to drive to Phoenix, Az. to see them in concert. Of course our parents said no way. So we said we were going camping, as we did a lot back then. We had a 5 or 6 car caravan going to the concert. All I remember is parking there and then waking up in the car with the others. Ah, great times...
My dad raised me on this good stuff. Whenever I listen to The Who or any classic rock it puts me in a great mood and reminds me when I was little. Last year, my color guard team took a road trip to a city 2 hours away and this jam came on while I was taking a nap and I immediately woke up and shut my eyes again and was tapping my feet the whole time.
In 1976, I moved from a city to a rural Australian campus - and as luck would have it - to the premier on-campus party dorm (think "Animal House", with more civilised attitudes to women). This song was a wonderful, liberating anthem to a life beyond the suburbs, to beyond the prevailing political climate of the time. It was a wonderful call-to-arms song, whether played at a dorm party or else within the comforting arms of a beloved partner. I love this song more and more as the years pass, not only for the fond memories, but for the consummate energy and conquer-the-horizons narrative.
GREW UP FROM 5TH GRADE ON GETTING DRUNK OFF OF CHURCH WINE LISTENING TO EVERY WHO ALBUM WE COULD GET OUR HANDS ON AND SITTING IN OUR CLUBHOUSE SLASH BAR WE BUILT OURSELVES FROM NEW AND OLD WOOD.WE CALLED IT THE FRAME.GOD BLESS YOU. I THINK "I CAN SEE FOR MILES "WAS PLAYED ONCE OR TWICE OVER THE YEARS IN OUR BAR / CLUBHOUSE
What a song! Still powerful after 54 years! The first time this kicked off on the radio you wanted that *"11"* setting on volume control! Then to hear it *live* on the WN tour! Thrilling. (and later tours, too.) Seen them live from '68 (15 yrs old) - to 2019. The memories still glow with joy!
I saw them live, just after this record was released; we skipped school and went early to general admition, and got seats 3 rows away from the band, in the middle! My friend Rofler, caught Daltrey's broken tamborine. I was deaf for a day or two afterwards! What a great show it was, Keith Moon breaking drumsticks..nothing like it.
How stoned was Keith that night? I saw him once in Detroit... He was totaled onstage. Complete wreck! I think he soiled himself once onstage. But all his insanity and relentless drinking... No one, but nobody, could bang the drums like him!
"Let's get together before we get much older." There's a lot of truth to that line. I've seen it with my parents who are too old now to get together with family and friends because of health and mobility issues or all their family and friends from their generation are gone now. Don't keep putting it off. Life won't wait around for you.
To me, it always meant love with a girl. Hell, this is the band who sang "Hope I die before I get old.." I always wanted to use that line on a girl but never did. Missed opportunity since one of the loves of my life is a Rock Studies Professor.
Out here in the fields I fight for my meals I get my back into my living I don't need to fight To prove I'm right No, I don't need to be forgiven Don't cry Don't raise your eye It's only teenage wasteland Sally, take my hand Travel south crossland Put out the fire Don't look past my shoulder The exodus is here The happy ones are near Let's get together Before we get much older Teenage wasteland It's only teenage wasteland Teenage wasteland Teenage wasteland They're all wasted! The Who - Baba O'Riley
I interpret the lyrics by Pete Townshend to really mean (he was using code because homosexuality wasn't really excepted in his early career) 'out here in the fields (streets or London), I fight for my meals (blow jobs on guys) I get back to my living (rentboy) I don't need to fight, to prove I'm right, I don't need to be forgiven...He's basically saying that he doesn't need to justify his lifestyle to anybody.
Same here, saw them in concert in Denver in 71?, 72? . That's where I learned to chew up a bit of Kleenex and stuff it in your ears. Believe It or Not folks it actually allows you to hear everything but at a reduced volume and no ear damage. You can actually hear BETTER at a rock concert with the right type of earplugs.
*freezeframe* Yup that's me! The one who disappointed my elders, you're probably wondering how I got myself into this situation, well to answer that we've gotta go all the way back to the summer of '83
So ahead of its time as the WHO mostly was their entire career. My 67 year old friend tells me that this was mind blowing in 1971 and every couple years they followed.
"It just goes to show. Dream big. Live big. Love big... Fall to your death down a giant f**king hole; now I know, which is 0% of the battle apparently"
I actually picture the opposite. I imagine a 30 year old man realising that the age when his dreams were supposed to come true already passed, and when he is about to cry, is relieved, realizing that all the time he fought for his dreams was better than everything he imagined
This song is absolute proof that music, especially rock, is almost hypnotic. People could be doing something totally chill like painting or drawing, then this song plays and you start headbanging and playing imaginary drums. I love the Who SO MUCH!!
This is my first time listening to this song and thats exactly what i fucking did! I started headbanging and playing imaginary drums! Like no shit! Your comment spoke to me on like a really deep level just now man. Thank you.
@Pedro DLR Instead of complaining about how the younger generation aquired their taste of music, maybe you should be happy that so many younger people can still enjoy music that their parents and the older generation liked. Everyone knows a song from somewhere, it doesnt matter if its from a movie, a video game or from an old LP you find in the basement, it doesnt make their taste somehow invalid. What matters is how they listen to a song and how they keep it famous...
Pedro DLR Calm down my friend! Don’t bash on the younger generation for how they got their taste in music. It’s wonderful that our world is so connected that we can listen to whatever music we want to. I’m part of the younger generation too and I found this song through my dad but so what if others find this song differently. Discovering music is always a positive thing my friend. You have a lot to learn coming from a 16 year old.
Pedro DLR I’m sorry if my comment came off a bit offensive as I didn’t know that you were joking. Anyways thanks for explaining and sorry for the long reply time.
I am so lucky to have been born at an era when this was out there. My best memories are of Charlton Athletic 1974 and The Who were playing.....great music will stay with you forever
some years ago, Daddy (who put me into Deep Purple & Pinl Floyd at age 3...) gave me this one particular CD with a U2 and another one... "take it, son, for your personnal culture" BLESS YOU, DAD !!!
I had an FM converter in the dash of my 68 GTO, and that's where I first heard this tune. I had put the converter in because AM radio sucked and played the Osmonds and shit. This song was like ripples on the surface of a pond with a stone tossed in.
Out here in the fields I fight for my meals I get my back into my living I don't need to fight To prove I'm right I don't need to be forgiven Don't cry Don't raise your eye It's only teenage wasteland Sally take my hand We'll travel south cross land Put out the fire And don't look past my shoulder The exodus is here The happy ones are near Let's get together, before we get much older Teenage wasteland It's only teenage wasteland Teenage wasteland Oh yeah, teenage wasteland They're all wasted! Your welcome!
Palpatine ..... Geez, what happened to me? I was ruling the galaxy. Had a cherry new battle station. Pans over to Palpatine cutting the red rope with red light scissors to the Death Star with an omelet bar next to it. Vader helps him cut it.
Woodstock actually: "Townshend stated in an interview that the song is about "the absolute desolation of teenagers at Woodstock, where audience members were strung out on acid and 20 people had brain damage. The irony was that some listeners took the song to be a teenage celebration: 'Teenage Wasteland, yes! We're all wasted!'"".
People say the beginning of this sounds like the song 'The Best Song Ever" by One Direction (even though this was released first) so i decided to check it out....
*record scratch* *freeze frame* *this song starts playing* "See that guy? Yeah. That's me. Charming, I know. You're probably wondering how I ended up here. To tell you that, we're gonna have to go back. WAY back." *Shows baby main character* "Woah, tiger! Not that far back!" *Fast fowards to a school bus emptying* "Thereeee we go! It was the first day of a school, and I only had one thing on my mind: Stacey O"Donell. See, I didn't know it then, but my life was about to be turned upside down." *music fades out* *scene actually begins*
there's a difference between a passing interest in pop culture and actual interest in music. that's why music sucks today. it's not insulting the people who make it, it's insulting the idiots who fail to recognise talent and just want simplistic shit to prevent them from thinking. the majority of people hear something popular and flock to it. this isn't popular because of culture. it's popular because it's amazingly crafted. being put in a tv show just proves that music today isn't worth using.
My sister and I saw the who about ten years ago. This is the song The Who opened with at the concerts. I will never forget the smile on her face once this song started playing. We lost my sister to domestic abuse 4 years later. Anytime this some comes on, I still see her beautiful smile. Hold your loved ones close to your heart, enjoy every moment together. Never miss an opportunity to say "I love you."
Josh Plays! Saw them in manny last April it was great seeing it live for the first time with my old man it’s a memory that will stay with me till the grave
lol I've been searching for this song for like half an hour and the now my search history is plastered with " Flashback song " and " flashback piano riff"
Why is it that when I listen to this song I get a warn and fuzzy feeling. a feeling of consolation and satisfaction knowing that we created something, my generation (so to speak ;). we created some of the greatest music that ever was, and that will stand the test of time, and that I don't think will ever be beaten. It was a wonderful time to be alive, possibly the high point of humanity. the human race is lost now as we submit our freedom to enslavement and dehumanisation through technology. but we had a good run in the 60s 70s 80s and 90s. . . and I was a part of it, and if you are 40 or 50 or over, you were too, and you know what I'm talking about. peace out to the children of the 60s 70s 80s and 90s.
81 years young and so fucking happy I was part of that generation. WE still kick butt. Wouldn't change a thing if I had the chance to do it over again. If you know, you know.
Lets form a band and make music like this then :P. We dont have to become famous as long as we enjoy it and share it with others who also share our taste in music.
imagine being 17 in the summer of '71, driving on a country road, and this comes on for the first time. i think i would have needed to pullover and take a knee. but hey, at least we got taylor swift and jack antonoff today?
Narekaci Shahbazyan Nah, the only joke here is your attitude, learn to accept that some people may have different opinions to you. And I did specifically state it was my opinion.
The best part about this whole thing is the album cover, all for band members walk away zippin up their pants after pissin on a giant concrete pillar in the middle of nowhere....classy.
Whoa, I was 18 when this album came out. From your comment, I just realized they took a piss. Musta been to fucked up to remember. Sober now 37 years. Woulda been the death o' me otherwise
My 18th birthday was on the last day of Woodstock, I am so blessed to have lived during the greatest time of music since Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, etc. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. (Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"). Rock and Roll!
Kacper Szymaniak stranger things is the best obviously here for stranger things and no I’m not being sarcastic it is truly the best can’t wait for season 3👌🏻!
Kermit the Frog's Mexican Uncle I guess people have different opinions, but truly a majority of the world have an admiration for the show, so I feel that you don’t have the need to tell you’re opinion negatively. 😊
Roger Daltrey - lead vocals Pete Townshend - Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ (using its marimba repeat feature as the backing track), piano, guitar, co-lead vocals John Entwistle - bass Keith Moon - drums Dave Arbus - violin Pete Townshend -- songwriter Meher Baba and Terry Riley -- musical & spiritual inspirations The Who -- producers Glyn Johns -- associate producer Kit Lambert, Chris Stamp, Pete Kameron -- executive producers
I’m listening to this now, 20th December 2024 0424 fantastic my 3rd best group of all time after the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and I’m 79 years old.
I love the edit where Vogler wordlessly walks in, turns off the song, and walks out again. XD Also, I'm so grateful to my mom that I grew up listening to music like this.
![The Who - Baba O'Reily -- In [High Definition] HD! -1979 - The Kids Are Alright](/img/n.gif)
Rumor has it everytime you listen to this the intro actually gets longer.
I am fine with that
True that
Going to the concert tonight, ... cant wait!!!!!
Does it ever get as long as the intro to Flying Whales by Gojira?
@@Hero_of_Storms eventually
Me! My Mom first exposed me to great music. She passed last week, but her legacy lives on through my kids.
❤
❤ you had a good mama. my condolences.
She left a legacy behind the lyrics too. Look and listen, 2057. Best love and energy to you.
I was in high school in San Diego, around 1974 or so, my friends and I wanted to drive to Phoenix, Az. to see them in concert. Of course our parents said no way. So we said we were going camping, as we did a lot back then. We had a 5 or 6 car caravan going to the concert. All I remember is parking there and then waking up in the car with the others. Ah, great times...
TIMOTHY, YOU'RE GROUNDED.
That's beautiful man...
such a cool memory
Fully jealous yo. I wanna see what's it's like in the late 70s and early 80s 😭😭
Sick
My dad raised me on this good stuff. Whenever I listen to The Who or any classic rock it puts me in a great mood and reminds me when I was little. Last year, my color guard team took a road trip to a city 2 hours away and this jam came on while I was taking a nap and I immediately woke up and shut my eyes again and was tapping my feet the whole time.
Behind blue eyes is amazing too, I love this kind of sounds.
This is not a song, this is a masterpiece.
In 1976, I moved from a city to a rural Australian campus - and as luck would have it - to the premier on-campus party dorm (think "Animal House", with more civilised attitudes to women). This song was a wonderful, liberating anthem to a life beyond the suburbs, to beyond the prevailing political climate of the time. It was a wonderful call-to-arms song, whether played at a dorm party or else within the comforting arms of a beloved partner. I love this song more and more as the years pass, not only for the fond memories, but for the consummate energy and conquer-the-horizons narrative.
You got that right
The Who are my favorite band ever. I'm here for the music of my youth. I'm 68. My favorite song, "I can see for miles" will be playing next.
MY FAVORITE BAND AS WELL BROTHER
GREW UP FROM 5TH GRADE ON GETTING DRUNK OFF OF CHURCH WINE LISTENING TO EVERY WHO ALBUM WE COULD GET OUR HANDS ON AND SITTING IN OUR CLUBHOUSE SLASH BAR WE BUILT OURSELVES FROM NEW AND OLD WOOD.WE CALLED IT THE FRAME.GOD BLESS YOU. I THINK "I CAN SEE FOR MILES "WAS PLAYED ONCE OR TWICE OVER THE YEARS IN OUR BAR / CLUBHOUSE
House, Stranger Things, Life on Mars. All awesome shows.
Love this song. Best intro ever
CSI NY 👍
BLECK
What a song! Still powerful after 54 years!
The first time this kicked off on the radio you wanted that *"11"* setting on volume control!
Then to hear it *live* on the WN tour! Thrilling. (and later tours, too.) Seen them live from '68 (15 yrs old) - to 2019.
The memories still glow with joy!
I saw them live, just after this record was released; we skipped school and went early to general admition, and got seats 3 rows away from the band, in the middle! My friend Rofler, caught Daltrey's broken tamborine. I was deaf for a day or two afterwards! What a great show it was, Keith Moon breaking drumsticks..nothing like it.
Legendary right there. That is amazing.
pepe cohetes / Great story / thanks for sharing
How stoned was Keith that night? I saw him once in Detroit... He was totaled onstage. Complete wreck! I think he soiled himself once onstage. But all his insanity and relentless drinking... No one, but nobody, could bang the drums like him!
Lou Reed was totally wasted onstage in Detroit too.
Was your friend rolling on the floor all the time?
This is the best song ever!
+Henry Cooldown I know what you did there lmao
+George michael obvious troll is obvious
I heard better.
👍
+Henry Cooldown lowlz.
"Let's get together before we get much older." There's a lot of truth to that line. I've seen it with my parents who are too old now to get together with family and friends because of health and mobility issues or all their family and friends from their generation are gone now. Don't keep putting it off. Life won't wait around for you.
To me, it always meant love with a girl. Hell, this is the band who sang "Hope I die before I get old.." I always wanted to use that line on a girl but never did. Missed opportunity since one of the loves of my life is a Rock Studies Professor.
Who's listening to this awsomemasterpiece in dicember 2024?
With some Jameson
Me
Right now
🤚
My favorite band!
All eras have really good music. I’m not so proud and arrogant to think is “it”. Shared it with my son and he liked it
Yup, that's me. Now, I bet you're wondering , "how'd I get myself in this situation?" Well I'll tell you. It all starts with the summer of '86....
85'
Stranger things 3
What happen on that day
What movie is that
@@skullfire988 doggy style 5000
Skullfire 98 big time rush the movie
Woah woah, see that guy right there? Looks like he's hit rock bottom. Well that guy is actually me, believe it or not
whats that from
whats that from
@@excessiveamountofautotune2661 M E M E S
@@emrenano7382 "The Breakfast Club," I suppose??
which one?
the intro to this still gives me goose-bumps,Moons drumming is 'spot on' so precise.
like so many Moon is no more.shame he was a genius.as was Hendrix
Keith Moon on drums= Thor & his hammer.
The World ever rock'n'roll team, thank you for this fabulous sound.
We're NOT wondering how you ended up here guys.
minutewherl 6 Round house.......see you weren't expecting that..
You see that guy over there?
Yeah that’s me
You’re probably wondering how I ended up here
Agreed
This is one of the few songs that no matter how many times I hear it, it feels like the first time I've listened to it. Its just plain awesome.
The only other song like that for me is Sultans of Swing.
were u been for the last 40 yr
King Nero good description man, me too!
I listened to this non stop from Daytona Beach to Toronto!!💋
Gotta say, I never realized that myself, but, yeah you be right you be..
Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
No, I don't need to be forgiven
Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland
Sally, take my hand
Travel south crossland
Put out the fire
Don't look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let's get together
Before we get much older
Teenage wasteland
It's only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
They're all wasted!
The Who - Baba O'Riley
@Aiden Sodhi
Yes yes, but are those captions actually reliable?
@Aiden Sodhi
You have a good point good sir.
I interpret the lyrics by Pete Townshend to really mean (he was using code because homosexuality wasn't really excepted in his early career) 'out here in the fields (streets or London), I fight for my meals (blow jobs on guys) I get back to my living (rentboy) I don't need to fight, to prove I'm right, I don't need to be forgiven...He's basically saying that he doesn't need to justify his lifestyle to anybody.
You forgot the oh yeah right before the last teenage wasteland
not for the rich who control all of us until we stand up
Who’s listening to this masterpiece in November 2024 ? ✋
Me 😎
Me.
Me
First heard this 1972 ..blew my mind, i was 15
🖐️
It's only teenage wasteland. They're all wasted!!! Brings back memories.
I share your point of view
Me too. At least from what I can remember.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@@bobleblowski8998 hfbc
"I will always remember, the girl next door..."
+Vincent Cassello where is this from?
+Dylan Brass the girl next door
thank you for this. WERE A FUCKING TRIPOD
YES
I am here because I listened to Who's next in 1971 and I keep coming back for more.
Same here, saw them in concert in Denver in 71?, 72? . That's where I learned to chew up a bit of Kleenex and stuff it in your ears. Believe It or Not folks it actually allows you to hear everything but at a reduced volume and no ear damage. You can actually hear BETTER at a rock concert with the right type of earplugs.
*freezeframe* Yup that's me! The one who disappointed my elders, you're probably wondering how I got myself into this situation, well to answer that we've gotta go all the way back to the summer of '83
So ahead of its time as the WHO mostly was their entire career. My 67 year old friend tells me that this was mind blowing in 1971 and every couple years they followed.
Absolutely one of the BEST albums of all time!!!!!
the best, like you kat...And more if affinity...
Absolutely no doubt.
No question about that Kat...
Who was next ?
"It just goes to show. Dream big. Live big. Love big... Fall to your death down a giant f**king hole; now I know, which is 0% of the battle apparently"
+Anakin Skywalker you were the chosen one!!!! You were said to destroy the sith not join them!!!
+Mat Rey (MAT7OPS) but he did then more apparently followed his example so im not sure where i sit on this argument
LMAO yes!!
***** tell ur sister
Saw them last night. Amazing. They still rock!
Nonce
Nothing brought me here other than my love for one of the greatest bands of all time
Joe price rxzr
This is the greatest song on earth.
This is my favorite song by the Who.
Mine too.
this is my favorite song by any band ever
David McAninch my 2nd favorite from the who.
same, pinball wizard is a close 2nd
The live at Leeds version of Magic bus is my favorite.
I’m sorry, have you guys heard of The Who? They rock! They’re unbelievable! I heard them for the first time on Thursday and I haven’t slept since!
Welcome to Whoville, friend.
Joe Pera approves of this comment
The Who?
The song makes me envision a man hard after his dreams, being told all his life he won't make it. But in the end he surprises even himself.
But in the end it doesn't even matter
@@meazel7406 linkin park reference?
Beautiful words
I actually picture the opposite.
I imagine a 30 year old man realising that the age when his dreams were supposed to come true already passed, and when he is about to cry, is relieved, realizing that all the time he fought for his dreams was better than everything he imagined
Yes,
This song is absolute proof that music, especially rock, is almost hypnotic. People could be doing something totally chill like painting or drawing, then this song plays and you start headbanging and playing imaginary drums. I love the Who SO MUCH!!
You mean channeling the spirit of Keith Moon. :)
This is my first time listening to this song and thats exactly what i fucking did! I started headbanging and playing imaginary drums! Like no shit! Your comment spoke to me on like a really deep level just now man. Thank you.
Keith Moon is still the best rock drummer ever.
My first exposure to this album was grade 9 art class.
Marc-André Hould you can't spell either.
you're probably wondering how i got here. it all started with my taste of music
@Pedro DLR Instead of complaining about how the younger generation aquired their taste of music, maybe you should be happy that so many younger people can still enjoy music that their parents and the older generation liked. Everyone knows a song from somewhere, it doesnt matter if its from a movie, a video game or from an old LP you find in the basement, it doesnt make their taste somehow invalid. What matters is how they listen to a song and how they keep it famous...
Pedro DLR Calm down my friend! Don’t bash on the younger generation for how they got their taste in music. It’s wonderful that our world is so connected that we can listen to whatever music we want to. I’m part of the younger generation too and I found this song through my dad but so what if others find this song differently. Discovering music is always a positive thing my friend. You have a lot to learn coming from a 16 year old.
Pedro DLR I’m sorry if my comment came off a bit offensive as I didn’t know that you were joking. Anyways thanks for explaining and sorry for the long reply time.
Doesn’t need
-to fight
-to prove he’s right
- to be forgiven
I got his album, my very first album for my 13th birthday.
Still my all time favorite
A great birthday present
This is most definitely the best song ever.
and we steal our line from the best song ever~ and we copy everything from the best songs ever~
Xiu Greyson Oh dear, I am so sad to tell you that one direction is actually the one who stole from Baba.
Still sounds good new and fresh nearly 50 years later
It sounds like it’s from the day back then... when teenagers ruled music xxx
Mick Royster True!
@@mickroyster6442 ok boomer
@@dumbhanded6419technically those teenagers are now boomers
@@dumbhanded6419 Not really. I'm 19 and I know that today's music sucks ass.
I am so lucky to have been born at an era when this was out there. My best memories are of Charlton Athletic 1974 and The Who were playing.....great music will stay with you forever
Thank you, Gregory House.
OH YES.
Freddy
Season 1 Episode 14. Amazing
Nik wrong it's actually episode 18
MrCTruck
No, you're wrong. It's season one episode fourteen. I just checked again. The name of the episode is "Control."
also CSI New York
*You're probably wondering how I got here. Well it all started when I was Patrolling the Mojave while wishing for a Nuclear Winter...*
NCR Trooper what is this from
No U a video game called “Fallout: New Vegas”. It’s the best Fallout game of the bunch. You should definitely play it if you’re into video games! :)
we won't go quiet, the legion can count on that.
The game was rigged from the start.
Item added - Holotape: The Who Baba O'riley (Val.: 1 strange casino chip)
My favorite song from my favorite album, going on 47 years now. Best produced song I've ever heard before or since.
Ted Hoeborn do you even Pink Floyd bro
Do you EVEN LED ZEPPLIN
Saw them at Kezar Stadium in SF in June of '73. LOUD
I still have the original album long worn out 40 years ago after many parties
Yes, classic song.
some years ago, Daddy (who put me into Deep Purple & Pinl Floyd at age 3...) gave me this one particular CD with a U2 and another one... "take it, son, for your personnal culture"
BLESS YOU, DAD !!!
My first concert ever was the who, just a couple days after John eintwistle died.. I seen them on the 4th of July
entwistle
or entwisle
I saw them a few moths before he died. Only time seeing The Who. I personally think this is the most talented band.
OR ENTWISTLE
At Shoreline?
You’re probably not wondering anything. I’m here anyway.
I had an FM converter in the dash of my 68 GTO, and that's where I first heard this tune. I had put the converter in because AM radio sucked and played the Osmonds and shit. This song was like ripples on the surface of a pond with a stone tossed in.
Don Bagley Ha ha ha ha ha! Thanks! This post took me WAYYYYYYY back.
You're probably wondering how i got here, well it all started when i was rewatching Joe Pera's show on Adult Swim
Same
@@nighttimetelevision2969 XD
Yep same
double reference xd
ZombRexGame Who didnt
I brought myself here.
me too bro
Adrian Brody brought me here when I was 12 years old and I've been a little shit ever since.
me three @gulshiniho
Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven
Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland
Sally take my hand
We'll travel south cross land
Put out the fire
And don't look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let's get together, before we get much older
Teenage wasteland
It's only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Oh yeah, teenage wasteland
They're all wasted!
Your welcome!
Thanks
✋👂👀👂🖐🏻
Thanks for this I guess but I’ve seen so many comments with the lyrics. Besides, most people here have probably known the lyrics for years.
SlingXSlayer ik tbh I’m doing it for likes lmao
we are not deaf
How does this have less views than one direction, such an injustice
What the fuck is one direction?
There in sync but more gay and rip more songs off
One reason . One Direction are better.
Sorry i don't listen to trolls
Because people like you keep talking about them.
So nice to hear this over traffic, out in the world....runs through my head for weeks.
The most amazing opening to the most amazing album.
Ronnie Jay more like Ronnie GAY
Weeaboo Boi that's the kind of response you would get from a weeaboo I guess.
Palpatine ..... Geez, what happened to me? I was ruling the galaxy. Had a cherry new battle station. Pans over to Palpatine cutting the red rope with red light scissors to the Death Star with an omelet bar next to it. Vader helps him cut it.
May remorse be with you.
Apparently the Who looked over the crowd at the end of the Isle Of Wight festival in 1970 and said it's a teenage wasteland.
Woodstock actually: "Townshend stated in an interview that the song is about "the absolute desolation of teenagers at Woodstock, where audience members were strung out on acid and 20 people had brain damage. The irony was that some listeners took the song to be a teenage celebration: 'Teenage Wasteland, yes! We're all wasted!'"".
MAYBE IT'S THE WAY SHE WALKED OW STRAIGHT INTO MY HEART AND STOLE IT
Your probably wondering how I got here it all started when I opened a incognito page
I wasn’t wondering but thanks for the information. Can you describe exactly how you got here?
@@Anony298 it all started in the summer of '16
This is why I don't have parents
It all started when I realized I was the same age as half the stranger things kids...
No why should we
People say the beginning of this sounds like the song 'The Best Song Ever" by One Direction (even though this was released first) so i decided to check it out....
And it's almost like a cover
Adachi oh.
No, it isn't. It's plagiarism.
guessing you have come from watch mojo? me too :)
I checked out the song "the best song ever" after I see your comment, to say they sounds alike??? what a insult to a true classic
Stranger Things - Season 3! Let's rock it!
Your fast.
Guilty! Stranger things 3 brought me here too
same
I screamed when I saw it
Yes finally!!
Woah woah woah. Do you ever have one of those moments where you think, How the hell did I get here?
3:57 violin rip gets me every time. Requiescat in pace Keith Moon.
Wut?
+FlyLo Skwad Latin lol. Artie's been playing too much assassin's creed
That is not italian dude. That is far from it: it's in fact latin. yup ezio speaks latin
+d rx Italian is derived from Latin,at least that's how I remember it.So not that far.
Johan Liebert It is, but latin is quite different than italian, you can't really say they are the same thing
Truly one of the greatest songs of all friggin' time!
yup...oh ya
I concur
*record scratch*
*freeze frame*
*this song starts playing*
"See that guy? Yeah. That's me. Charming, I know. You're probably wondering how I ended up here. To tell you that, we're gonna have to go back. WAY back."
*Shows baby main character*
"Woah, tiger! Not that far back!"
*Fast fowards to a school bus emptying*
"Thereeee we go! It was the first day of a school, and I only had one thing on my mind: Stacey O"Donell. See, I didn't know it then, but my life was about to be turned upside down."
*music fades out*
*scene actually begins*
What's that from?
Nothing. I just made it up as a generic teen movie intro.
Kool. Sounds genuine, if that means anything. :)
Reminded me of the robot chicken sketch ngl
its a rip off of the robot chicken sketch lmao
I am, and it is truly awesome!!! Just like it was when I first heard it age 15. I’m 64 now.
nothing brought me here except my love for music, sorry
Etsiii
Why not just be happy that more people are being exposed to good music? Its not about how you find a song, its about how it makes you feel
Jesus, thank you, at least know I'm not the only one left lol
you're not special
there's a difference between a passing interest in pop culture and actual interest in music. that's why music sucks today. it's not insulting the people who make it, it's insulting the idiots who fail to recognise talent and just want simplistic shit to prevent them from thinking. the majority of people hear something popular and flock to it.
this isn't popular because of culture. it's popular because it's amazingly crafted. being put in a tv show just proves that music today isn't worth using.
Always loved The Who, But Stranger Things 3 made me come back to this gem of a track!
Jordi Danen same bro I totally forgot about this song and the beauty of it
OMG ME! I CAN'T BELIEVE IM ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE LOL
same
😆😆😆
I knew i would find this comment
I love this part.
*unplugs radio*
Didn't we just have the best life!?!
Calling off my bday 12th Nov 2024 with this classic master piece of art
Im now officially listening to this in 2018! Thank God!
Victor Bugarin it’s timeless bro 👍
Victor Bugarin tem que ser feito com muito amor e paz para todos
never to late for music from the hall of fame.
*record scratch*
"Peter did you throw up in the sink?!"
SushiKunai 😂 that's how I found this song
I just see that scene😂😂😂😂😂
THATS HOW I GOT HERE
what's the reference ?
family guy
this is the Best Song Ever ;)
I GEDDDDDIT
it sounds nothing like BEST SONG EVER if you listen to it and then this you can heard a differents
This is ONE of the best songs ever.
one of the best songs ever written in rock history...
The world of music has much to offer, but there isn't a great deal of of it that is as good as this!
Most recognizable rock song of all-time
crazypants 1234 i think stairway to heaven might have something to say about that
@@retiredLBPD lol!
@@retiredLBPD I think Bo Rap might too
WHO brought you here people might ask. i say it's a silly question. we all know WHO brought us here
Who?
Doctor
Donkey Rolla I came here cause I like The Who
Donkey Rolla Hahaha..good one 👍🏾
Donkey Rolla I see what you did there 😉
My sister and I saw the who about ten years ago. This is the song The Who opened with at the concerts.
I will never forget the smile on her face once this song started playing.
We lost my sister to domestic abuse 4 years later. Anytime this some comes on, I still see her beautiful smile.
Hold your loved ones close to your heart, enjoy every moment together. Never miss an opportunity to say "I love you."
Just saw The Who in Rochester last night. What an amazing show...
Josh Plays! I'll. I bet it was awesome. Where is their next stop
No you didn't. You saw Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey. The Who died with Keith Moon.
T.L. Blackburn Yeah and I'm sure Keith Moon was the one who made up the entire band lmao dumbass
Canandaigua show??
Josh Plays! Saw them in manny last April it was great seeing it live for the first time with my old man it’s a memory that will stay with me till the grave
lol I've been searching for this song for like half an hour and the now my search history is plastered with " Flashback song " and " flashback piano riff"
i always thought this song was called teenage wasteland
@@Freerangemeggs the original demo of the song from 1970/71 was called Teenage Wasteland
Why is it that when I listen to this song I get a warn and fuzzy feeling. a feeling of consolation and satisfaction knowing that we created something, my generation (so to speak ;). we created some of the greatest music that ever was, and that will stand the test of time, and that I don't think will ever be beaten. It was a wonderful time to be alive, possibly the high point of humanity. the human race is lost now as we submit our freedom to enslavement and dehumanisation through technology. but we had a good run in the 60s 70s 80s and 90s. . . and I was a part of it, and if you are 40 or 50 or over, you were too, and you know what I'm talking about. peace out to the children of the 60s 70s 80s and 90s.
Awe thanks man
Wow lucky life must have been great with the music cars and movies so jealous
81 years young and so fucking happy I was part of that generation. WE still kick butt. Wouldn't change a thing if I had the chance to do it over again. If you know, you know.
Very special band. One of the 3 or 4 greatest bands of all time.
Bought my first two LPs in 1972. They were Who's Next and Santana III.
Who are the two thousand people who do not like this song?? Insane.
I would love to hear why.....insane indeed.
they are at one direction concert now, and think this is plagiarism... jajaja
Bill Russo fucking these two thousand people
to be fair there's also 121 thousand people who do like it
Millenials
makes me sad music like this aint made anymore :'(, im just 17 and i hate the shit thats made today, love old rock like this
Lets form a band and make music like this then :P. We dont have to become famous as long as we enjoy it and share it with others who also share our taste in music.
Benjamin Våge i agree with u, still would be nice that others listen to it, not to shitty music like anaconda...
Fuck off.
Cameron West u fuck off u shitty nasty little troll
i am 16 and i think just like you
Thank you, Family Guy and satirical humor.
hahahahahaha family guy brought me here too
same here :)
Yup
wooooo family guy
allahusnackbar
imagine being 17 in the summer of '71, driving on a country road, and this comes on for the first time. i think i would have needed to pullover and take a knee.
but hey, at least we got taylor swift and jack antonoff today?
It is the definitive intro of Rock n Roll songs. All other intros pale in comparison. Long live the Who. Rock n Roll could use another one.
I beg to differ, nothing gets you more pumped than a Uriah Heep or Deep Purple intro.
Welcome to the Jungle eclipses all imo.
Is that a joke? What is Welcome to the Jungle compared to Machine Head or Demons and Wizard, or In Rock, nothing.
Narekaci Shahbazyan Nah, the only joke here is your attitude, learn to accept that some people may have different opinions to you. And I did specifically state it was my opinion.
D Wright - METALHEAD
Welcome to the Jungle > Machine Head Pffft AHAHAHAHA
The best part about this whole thing is the album cover, all for band members walk away zippin up their pants after pissin on a giant concrete pillar in the middle of nowhere....classy.
Antoine Zogbi It’s a concrete piling in a Slag heap at Easington Colliary, County Durham UK.
Whoa, I was 18 when this album came out. From your comment, I just realized they took a piss. Musta been to fucked up to remember. Sober now 37 years. Woulda been the death o' me otherwise
Townshend absolutely loathes this album cover. In his book, he spends a good page ranting about it.
Antoine Zogbi PUNK
It's a joke spoofing 2001 A Space Odyssey.
So many memories I was 19 in '71 and just lived through the best decade of music, little did I know that there was so much more to come.
My 18th birthday was on the last day of Woodstock, I am so blessed to have lived during the greatest time of music since Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, etc. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. (Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"). Rock and Roll!
When this drums kick in! I wish we had rock like this still.
If you are here because of Stranger Things... Then good for you! The Who is one of the greatest rock bands. So enjoy!
Kacper Szymaniak thank you for being the only polite person in the comment section!! 🙏
Kacper Szymaniak stranger things is the best obviously here for stranger things and no I’m not being sarcastic it is truly the best can’t wait for season 3👌🏻!
Stranger things sucks lmao
CSI: NY is where its at, greatest show
Kermit the Frog's Mexican Uncle I guess people have different opinions, but truly a majority of the world have an admiration for the show, so I feel that you don’t have the need to tell you’re opinion negatively. 😊
one of the best songs ever recorded
solid choice
"one of the best songs ever recorded" LOL!
LOL? whats with the LOL
Bruh...lol
“One of the *best songs ever!* 😂
"The Girl Next Door" brought me here.
+Josh Lynch Haha Yes
and what a terrible fucking movie that was
Awesome movie
+Lmclean89 the only reason i liked it was because some hot chick was in it
Hector the lll agreed ha
Joe Pera told me to check out this song when I was at church on Sunday... he’s got good taste!
Same and facts
My awesome music taste brought me here.
Roger Daltrey - lead vocals
Pete Townshend - Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ (using its marimba repeat feature as the backing track), piano, guitar, co-lead vocals
John Entwistle - bass
Keith Moon - drums
Dave Arbus - violin
Pete Townshend -- songwriter
Meher Baba and Terry Riley -- musical & spiritual inspirations
The Who -- producers
Glyn Johns -- associate producer
Kit Lambert, Chris Stamp, Pete Kameron -- executive producers
Tarantulisimo, Finally a USEFUL comment!
The best band ever.listened to this growing up.every Saturday in fact this track was played in my house .lv by all the casson.s family..
When did Pete Townsend become Pete Townshend?
@@donjones481 idk
RIP Keith Moon and John Entwistle.
I’m listening to this now, 20th December 2024 0424 fantastic my 3rd best group of all time after the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and I’m 79 years old.
Everyone's talking about the intro but not 4:05 and onward
Neo I have that cello ruminating in my head and I couldn’t figure out what it was from. 4:05 and onward!
best part
@@batDOG.RECORDS i am neoark,
Reminds me of that Conan movie
Love it
No single song influenced both my wasted and gloriously wonderful youth as this one!
The Who, well aware of the impact of a "drop". Goodness, that's good.
I love the edit where Vogler wordlessly walks in, turns off the song, and walks out again. XD Also, I'm so grateful to my mom that I grew up listening to music like this.